Guiding questions: What were the intentions ofColumbus and Spain in the New World?
Homework/Study lab:
1. Choose one of the following articles. Read it, and generate 3 main, interesting points to share with the class. Next, come up with one original question that you would like to know about what you read. Finally, turn in a half-page summary of the article. 10 points
Rumors of cannibalism among the Native Americans. Questions: Where did these rumors start and how did they influence relations of the Europeans with the Native Americans?
Columbus among the Native Americans
Class reads: The Columbus letter, written in 1493:
Read in class: http://www.usm.maine.edu/~maps/columbus/translation.html
Guiding question: How does Columbus describe the inhabitants of Hispaniola?
Class reads: Columbus letter to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus2.html
Guiding questions: What were the intentions of Columbus and Spain in the New World?
Homework/Study lab:
1. Choose one of the following articles. Read it, and generate 3 main, interesting points to share with the class. Next, come up with one original question that you would like to know about what you read. Finally, turn in a half-page summary of the article. 10 points
http://www.millersville.edu/~columbus/data/art/COWLEY01.ART
“The Great Disease Migration”
Newsweek article on disease brought over by the European explorers.
http://www.millersville.edu/~columbus/data/art/DAVIS-D1.ART
Rumors of cannibalism among the Native Americans.
Questions: Where did these rumors start and how did they influence relations of the Europeans with the Native Americans?
http://www.millersville.edu/~columbus/data/art/WILSON02.ART
Columbus among the Native Americans
"Columbus, my enemy" " Columbus, My Enemy"(A Caribbean chief resists the first Spanish invaders)
http://www.millersville.edu/~columbus/data/art/GILES-01.ART
"How did Native Americans respond to Christianity?" Christian History article, 1990